Quotes About Subjectivity

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

To those who insist that nothing is equivalent to personal experience, We shall renew our argument, begging them to meditate on the preceding lines, drawing their attention to the fact that a just opinion can only be formed when personal sentiment is excluded from the discussion.

A little thought will make this clear. The sense of existence of a man with a massive physique must, in itself, be of the kind that embraces the whole world; for that man, considered as a object of knowledge, every-thing outside himself (including me) must necessarily be transferred onto the objective outside world experienced by his senses

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so.

Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations.

What I feel to be good – is good. What I feel to be bad – is bad.

Arte es cualquier cosa que la gente crea que es arte, y la belleza está en los ojos del espectador».

Los científicos no saben cómo un conjunto de señales eléctricas en el cerebro crea experiencias subjetivas. Y, lo que es más importante, tampoco saben cuál podría ser el beneficio evolutivo de semejante fenómeno. Es la mayor laguna en nuestra comprensión de la vida.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it."

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

Everyone sees other people differently because everyone is projecting aspects of him or her self.

When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.

There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one we share.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be

One reason it's so difficult to decide what to say became immediately clear: comments and questions that some appreciated were not appreciated by others.

Semua peristiwa hanyalah semata-mata peristiwa, tapi cara kita menyikapinyalah yang memberi label, kan? Entah itu diberi judul tragedi atau keberuntungan. Dia bisa melihat dirinya sebagai korban atau sebaliknya. Semoga saja dia sadar kalau dia sedang berpijak di semesta yang serbarelatif.

Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

As far as the brain is concerned, neural filtering is taking place in all models, whether they are scientific, spiritual, artistic, or psychotic. The brain is a processor of inputs, not a mirror to reality. If our brains are constantly filtering every experience, there is no way anyone can claim to know what is "really" real. You can't step outside your brain to fathom what lies beyond it.